Quote Originally Posted by Scrap View Post
Eddie Futch Told me, why He should lie I dont Know.
For years Eddie Futch also told the story about how Burley took the Archie Moore fight on less than a days notice. Not true.

Burley did work in an aircraft factory at the time and it is possible that he did a days work before the night of the fight (unlikely though). So, that part of Futch's story may be correct. The fact was the fight was signed weeks in advance.

If Burley and Robinson met in a gym and Burley knocked Robinson out, why is it that no one talked about it before? If it was true, then Robinson may be disinclined to tell, but there must have been other people there! Burley never once mentioned it - though he appeared to have a good deal more class than SRR. Eddie Futch seems to be the only person that knew of it, yet it took him years to tell the story! I don't buy it.

Cocoa Kid put Robinson down in sparring - once (and documented in contemporary newspaper accounts). If anyone at that time was giving SRR fits in the gym it would have been Artie Towne.

Quote Originally Posted by Scrap View Post
...some Porkys amongst them but a few truths are in there. Isnt History wonderfull
Amen to that Scrap!